•6:14 PM
Its been a while since I updated my blog ... just wanted to pen down my good moments of this year before the New Year dawns! .. my achievements , good times, bad times yada yada yada....
This year 2005 has been promising & challenging to me in a lot ways!
To start off ...we moved from Michigan to Callifornia in April .. Initially I neva liked the idea of moving to cali... 'coz I spent 2 years in michigan .... the memories with that place is still fresh in my mind...
.... I used to tell uday.. 'let's move to cali' ..n the next min i would say .. ' nah! let's stay in MI ' .. It was cofusing though.. but finally made a decision to move to cali.... " If you dont travel now , then when would you? " - that's our policy! ... The road trip to cali was memorable one! That was our first road trip from coast to coast ...say roughly around 2,450 miles .. wow!
On the education front.. The first time they rejected my application ...I got depressed .. and that continued for almost 2 months. Uday coouldn't see me getting depressed and he decided to get a job for me ... IT no way! I used to fight with him ' Who would give me a job in that field'..
But he would console me and say " its going to be fine! " .. which makes me feel so comfortable and forget about worrying!
To my surprise I applied for Marketing Assistant to 40 companies, out of which only 20 companies liked my resume and responded to it. You neva fair well in your first interview.. n so was I. After a good 3-4 interviews I became confident and knew how to answer confidently.. I nailed the rest 16 interviews and even got a job as a Sales Representative at a company called San Francisco Marketing(SFO Marketing)!!! ...
The remarks from everyone interviewer was... "
#I had a lot of confidence in my voice
#The way I present myself
#A firm hand shake! ...
#My eye contact with the interviewer is simply great!!! "
wow!! That's the best remarks I ever got!
Wondering what happened to the rest 15 ? well... all of them were ready to appoint me ..but none of them were willing to sponsor my H-1 visa .. even the SFO company initially said .. they would sponsor my H-1 ... but for that I have to work as a volunteer form 4-5 months... if they really like my work then they would file for a H-1.. That was the smoothest way to say .. ' NO we don't!' ..
I was never dissappointed .. 'coz I knew that I would get another job somewhere else and that no company in the marketing field for a 'Sales Rep' would sponsor H-1 .... so I decided to join the community college n finish the bridge courses!
That was quite an achievement in the job front though !
Later in june... I started blogging.. started out with some simple poems ..daily musings.. and me and uday started a blog Word of the Worlds . With some publicity and word of 'email' :), it soon grew to become a collaborative blog of 80 registered users...thanks to orkut :) !!
It all started when I received an e-mail from my school buddy.. an invitation to join Orkut [an online friend network] Boom! that's it! I started to spend more time on the net, talking to different people .. Now every morning when I wake up, the first thing I do is check my orkut account n see if there are nE new scraps!! ... but must say.. I really made some great friends through orkut ..Recently I added a new person ... his reply was.. "what's the reason for adding me??? do you want to be the orkutian with highest # of friends? " well i don't know... all i know is I want to make new friends and keep in contact with everyone of them!!! ... that dosen't mean that i would forget my old friends!... forgetting is not a world in my world![ not a movie dialogue .... its my own ;) ]
On the fun side , comparing to last year, we travelled to [ & through :) ] a lot of places this year..
Indiana ....
.... Illinois ....
.... Iowa ....
.... Nebraska ....
.... Wyoming ....
.... Utah ....
.... Nevada ....
.... all the above 7 states was part of our road trip excluding MI n CA
St. Louis for my cousin's marriage ....
Los Angeles ....
Seattle ....
.... Vancouver , B.C [ Canada] for our visa interviews {part business part pleasure}
Virginia , to meet my aunts ....
.... Washington , D.C {merry-go-around in my aunt's car lolz !! }
Phew! that's a big enough list ;) ..
On the whole .. it's been a great year for me and I am hoping that the coming year would be much more challenging and fun!
And If you ask me what's my New Year Resolution : I would say... Neva make Resolutions unless you really stick to it!
Wishing you all a Happy, Healthy n Prosperous New Year!!
This year 2005 has been promising & challenging to me in a lot ways!
To start off ...we moved from Michigan to Callifornia in April .. Initially I neva liked the idea of moving to cali... 'coz I spent 2 years in michigan .... the memories with that place is still fresh in my mind...
.... I used to tell uday.. 'let's move to cali' ..n the next min i would say .. ' nah! let's stay in MI ' .. It was cofusing though.. but finally made a decision to move to cali.... " If you dont travel now , then when would you? " - that's our policy! ... The road trip to cali was memorable one! That was our first road trip from coast to coast ...say roughly around 2,450 miles .. wow!
On the education front.. The first time they rejected my application ...I got depressed .. and that continued for almost 2 months. Uday coouldn't see me getting depressed and he decided to get a job for me ... IT no way! I used to fight with him ' Who would give me a job in that field'..
But he would console me and say " its going to be fine! " .. which makes me feel so comfortable and forget about worrying!
To my surprise I applied for Marketing Assistant to 40 companies, out of which only 20 companies liked my resume and responded to it. You neva fair well in your first interview.. n so was I. After a good 3-4 interviews I became confident and knew how to answer confidently.. I nailed the rest 16 interviews and even got a job as a Sales Representative at a company called San Francisco Marketing(SFO Marketing)!!! ...
The remarks from everyone interviewer was... "
#I had a lot of confidence in my voice
#The way I present myself
#A firm hand shake! ...
#My eye contact with the interviewer is simply great!!! "
wow!! That's the best remarks I ever got!
Wondering what happened to the rest 15 ? well... all of them were ready to appoint me ..but none of them were willing to sponsor my H-1 visa .. even the SFO company initially said .. they would sponsor my H-1 ... but for that I have to work as a volunteer form 4-5 months... if they really like my work then they would file for a H-1.. That was the smoothest way to say .. ' NO we don't!' ..
I was never dissappointed .. 'coz I knew that I would get another job somewhere else and that no company in the marketing field for a 'Sales Rep' would sponsor H-1 .... so I decided to join the community college n finish the bridge courses!
That was quite an achievement in the job front though !
Later in june... I started blogging.. started out with some simple poems ..daily musings.. and me and uday started a blog Word of the Worlds . With some publicity and word of 'email' :), it soon grew to become a collaborative blog of 80 registered users...thanks to orkut :) !!
It all started when I received an e-mail from my school buddy.. an invitation to join Orkut [an online friend network] Boom! that's it! I started to spend more time on the net, talking to different people .. Now every morning when I wake up, the first thing I do is check my orkut account n see if there are nE new scraps!! ... but must say.. I really made some great friends through orkut ..Recently I added a new person ... his reply was.. "what's the reason for adding me??? do you want to be the orkutian with highest # of friends? " well i don't know... all i know is I want to make new friends and keep in contact with everyone of them!!! ... that dosen't mean that i would forget my old friends!... forgetting is not a world in my world![ not a movie dialogue .... its my own ;) ]
On the fun side , comparing to last year, we travelled to [ & through :) ] a lot of places this year..
Indiana ....
.... Illinois ....
.... Iowa ....
.... Nebraska ....
.... Wyoming ....
.... Utah ....
.... Nevada ....
.... all the above 7 states was part of our road trip excluding MI n CA
St. Louis for my cousin's marriage ....
Los Angeles ....
Seattle ....
.... Vancouver , B.C [ Canada] for our visa interviews {part business part pleasure}
Virginia , to meet my aunts ....
.... Washington , D.C {merry-go-around in my aunt's car lolz !! }
Phew! that's a big enough list ;) ..
On the whole .. it's been a great year for me and I am hoping that the coming year would be much more challenging and fun!
And If you ask me what's my New Year Resolution : I would say... Neva make Resolutions unless you really stick to it!
Wishing you all a Happy, Healthy n Prosperous New Year!!
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4 comments:
Have a great new year.. was just checking the comments on my photo blog when i noticed yours.. was never in hyderabad.. except in std 8, we came to one of the school from Chennai on some kinda exchange prog and we were put up in a school there for a week. And then one a couple of months ago for the AIDS awareness show.. otherwise never been there.. but then the creator doesnt seem to be that creative.. would like to meet my look alike! :)
Came to this blog of urs from that lipsmusic site of urs.
I just love the saying of Swami Vivekanandji. I am big die hard fan of him.
hey.. thnx for the invite for the community on orkut..
2,450 miles.. WOW.. it must have been tiresome but fun
Have a gr8 year ahead..
My resolution for each new yr..
1. Never make any resolution
2. If by chance u make any, dont stick to it..
i mean whts the use of resolutions if u cant keep them or like to live as life comes...
Hii
guess wat...orkut lead me to ur blog..so three cheers 2 orkut..btw me too started blogging n orkutting this year..whoaa!!coast 2 coast..wud luv 2 do tat sometime..but hve 2 travel to US first ;)..new year resolution...hmm..got one this year bcos every1 doesn want one ;) Happy new year :)